Shield for baby cabinets or dressers.



L. A. JIRANEK.

SHIELD FOR BABY CABINETS ORDRESSERS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT- 27, 1925.

Patented Sept; 26, 1916.

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LOUI S A. JIRAIN'EK, O13 BIRNAMWOOD, WISCONSIN.

SHIELD FOR BABY CABINETS OE DRESSERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 26, 1916.

Application filed October 27, 1915. Serial No. 58,228.-

T 0 all whom it may concern Be .it known that I, LoUIs A. JIRANEK,

a citizen of the United States, and resident of Birnamwood, in the county of Shawano and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain ,new and useful Improvements in Shields for Baby Cabinets or Dressers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear and exact description thereof.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in dressers or cabinets for use in the care of small babies, and particularly to such cabinets or dressers of the type embodied in Patent No. 1,082,082, granted to me December 23, 1913, the invention in the present instance residing in the provision of a knock-down hood or shield member for confining the infant on the mattress provided on the top of the cabinet.

It is .the object of the invention to provide such a hood member or shield member which when placed inoperative position on the cabinet is firmly held against possible displacement to permit escape of an infant from the compartment formed by the hood member and which may be readily detached and stored within the cabinet so as to be entirely out of the way when not in use.

It is further an object of the invention to provide means for securing the hood on the top of the dresser which will be rendered operative upon placing the hood on the top of the cabinet, whereby upon manipulation of a single securing member carried by the hood to secure a respective side thereof to the cabinet, all sides are positively held in place.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view, the invention resides more particularly in the novel combination, arrangement and formation of parts more particularly hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings wherein similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views and in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view taken transversely through the cabinet and showing the hood associated therewith in extended or operative position. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view taken longitudinally through the cabinet.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings, the "cabinet is shown as comprising the front wall 5, the

rear wall 6, the end walls 7 and the top Wall 8, which is disposed below the upper edges of the rear and end walls whereby a bed compartment is provided, a. mattress 9 being disposed on the top wall 8. Carried on the inner faces of the rear and end walls, above the top wall 8 are wooden strips 10, it being assumed that in the present instance the wall portions are constructed of sheet metal, and carried by these strips are pads 11. The upper portionof the rear wall 6 is formed double and includes an inner portion 6' which coacts to form at the back of the cabinet, a storage compartment to receive the hood or shield member in -inoperative position, a cover 12 being hinged to the outer section of the rear wall to close the compartment.

The hood or shield member comprises a central bow member 13, bow members 1 1 pivoted to the leg portions thereof, and bow members 15 pivoted to the free ends of the legs of the bow members 14:, whereby the entire structure may be folded to occupy a minimu'm of space for insertion, in its storage compartment. A suitable web member 16 connects the various bow members, and may comprise a net fabric as shown, or any other desired flexible fabric. The shield is permanently connected to the cabinet by a chain 17 which is secured to an eye 18 at the bottom of the storage compartment and secured to one of the bows 15 and which is of such length thatwhen the shield is in operative or extended position, it is substantially taut to hold the adjacent side of the shield against displacement. Hinged at 19' to the other bow 15 is a strip 19 which is adapted to close the front portion of the bed compartment formed by the projection of the cabinet walls above the wall 8 and which carries a pad 20 corresponding to the pads 11. This strip carries a hook 21 engageable in an eye 22 carried by the front wall 5. This hook is the only securing means that requires independent manipulation, as the ends of the shields are held by the legs of the central bow 13, extending into sockets 20 in the strips 10 of the end walls when the shield is placed in extended relation, and these leg ends in conjunction with the chain 17 provide for the securement of the other portions of the shield than the portion which carries the hook 18 and are held in looking position by locking the hook. A shield member has thus. been provided which may be very readily manipulated to assume an operative position and which when in operative osition is securely held a ainst an unwall disposed adjacent the compartment when the shield member is extended and a securing means connected to the opposite side wall.

2. The combination with a cabinet of the kind described having a compartment at its rear wall and having its rear and side walls extended above its top wall of a collapsible shield member adapted to be disposed in the compartment and to be extended and positioned over the top of the cabinet, and

a panel carried by the shield member for closing the front of the bed compartment.

3. The combination with a. cabinet of the kind described havin a'com Jartment atits 1 V b I rear wall of a. shield member including a,

plurality of loosely connected bows having their leg portions mutually pivotally connected, a flexible connection secured to one bow member and secured in the co1npartment and means for detachably securing the have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee, in

the county of Milwaukee and State of Wis-- consin.

LOUIS A. JIRANEK'.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. C. 

